Privacy Policy
Last updated: March 2023
Vaarada IT Solutions Pvt. Ltd. (“Vaarada”) is committed to protecting the integrity and privacy of the personal information that our users share with us.
This Privacy Policy describes
- Your data protection rights
- What personal information we collect
- How we use the personal information
- How we share the personal information
- How we protect the personal information
- How the amendments to the policy are managed
- How you can contact us
This policy applies to Vaarada.com and its sub-domains (“Website”) and our Software and related services (“Services”). Please read this Privacy Policy carefully and completely, in order to ensure that you are fully informed. If you have any questions or concerns about our use of your personal information, you can contact us using one of the mechanisms provided at the end of this document.
What Vaarada does
Vaarada helps enterprises in the areas of talent management through a variety of Services. Our customers/partners/users use our software and related services for one or more of the following:
- Recruitment Process Outsourcing(RPO)
- Permanent Hiring services
- Professional staffing services
- Leadership Hiring
- Diversity & Inclusion
- Digital-first hiring
- Talent Branding
- Research & consulting
- Career transition services
Vaarada is headquartered in India, but works with partners, services providers, and customers all around the globe. For more information, please visit our website https://vaarada.com
Your data protection rights
You have the following rights with respect to your personal information collected via our Website or Services:
- You have the right to access, correct, update, request portability, or request deletion of your personal information. If you wish to do so, you can contact us anytime.
- You have the right to object to processing of your personal information or restrict processing of your personal information. If you wish to do so, you can contact us anytime.
- You have the right to withdraw your previously provided consent at any time. If you wish to do so, you can contact us anytime.
- You have the right to file a complaint with your local data protection authority about our collection and processing of your personal information.
- Please note:
- If we have collected your personal information on behalf of our customer/partner, then you should contact the customer/partner directly.
- To protect your privacy, we reserve the right to verify your identity before complying with your request.
- Restricting the processing of your personal information, or deletion of your personal information may lead to you not being able to use some or all of our Websites and Services.
- Deletion of your personal information will be done immediately, but some residual data may be saved in certain logs which will get purged within a year after deleting your data.
- We do not knowingly collect, maintain, or use Personal Information from children under 18 years of age, and no part of our website is directed to children under the age of 18. We will take steps to delete it if we learn we have inadvertently collected it. If you learn that your child has provided us with Personal Information without your consent, you may alert us at privacy@vaarada.com. If we learn that we have collected any Personal Information from children under 18, we will promptly take steps to delete such information.
What personal information is collected by Vaarada
The personal information we collect depends on whether you are using our Website or our Services.
If you are using our Services
If you are using our Services, then one of our customers/partners has asked you to use our systems.
- In such cases, we are acting as a data processor, and we are collecting and processing your personal information on their behalf and in accordance with their instructions.
- In such cases, our customers/partners are responsible for ensuring that your personal information is being collected and processed in accordance with data protection laws.
- In such cases, if you have questions or concerns about the use of your personal data, you should contact the relevant customer/partner.
If you are using our Services, then we may be asked by our customers/partners to collect the following types of personal information:
Information provided by you voluntarily
- Email ID
- Login ID
- Name
- Phone number
- Date of Birth
- Gender
- Profile/display picture
- Copy of Government-issued ID
- Country, state, city, postal code, full postal address
- Educational Details: University/college, grades, degree, branch, dates
- Professional Details: Previous/current employers, dates, salary
- Resume/CV
- Social profiles like LinkedIn, Github, etc.
Information collected by Vaarada automatically
- Your recruitment status – as per the customer/partner process
- Your assessment performance – submitted answers, test scores, rank
- Your video, audio recording, and captured live images through the proctored assessments and interviews
- Your IP address, and its derived geographic location
- Your device info – type, device identification numbers, browser used
- Your Service usage – Pages accessed, links clicked
- Other technical information
- To collect some of this information, we may use cookies and similar tracking mechanisms
If you are using our Website
If you are using our Website, then you have directly engaged with Vaarada
- In such cases, we are acting as a data controller, and we as Vaarada are collecting and processing your personal information.
- In such cases, we are responsible for ensuring that your personal information is being collected and processed in accordance with data protection laws.
- In such cases, if you have questions or concerns about the use of your personal data, you should contact Vaarada
If you are using our Website, then we may collect the following types of personal information:
Information provided by you voluntarily
- Email ID
- Name
- Phone number
- Country, state, city
- Current employer, your role
Information collected by Vaarada automatically
- Your IP address, and its derived geographic location
- Your device info – type, device identification numbers, browser used
- Your Website usage – Pages accessed, links clicked
- Other technical information
- To collect some of this information, we may use cookies and similar tracking mechanisms
How Vaarada uses personal information
Vaarada may use your personal information for the following purposes:
- To provide and enhance our Website and Services
- To improve the user experience of our Websites and Services
- To contact you in response to your request
- To contact you for administrative purposes or customer service purposes
- To track your status, submissions, video, audio, profile information as required for lawful delivery of our Services
- To verify your identity when subsequently logging in and using the Services;
- To prevent you from navigating away from the test window while an assessment is ongoing;
- To detect and prevent fraud, suspicious activities, and other illegal activities;
- To analyse and improve products and services, collect feedback, enhance the Services, and evaluate the effectiveness of our marketing activities and overall services;
- To perform statistical analysis on users of the Website and Services and track your use of the Website and Services;
- To aggregate data; we may anonymise and aggregate data collected through our website and create statistics that may be used for any purpose, provided that such statistics do not identify any customers or individuals or contain any Personal Information.
- To comply with a law or regulation, court order, or other legal processes
- To protect our rights and property
- To protect someone’s health, safety, or welfare.
How Vaarada shares personal information.
Vaarada may disclose your personal information to the following types of recipients:
- To any person with your consent to the disclosure
- To our customers/partners on whose behalf we collected your personal information
- To our group companies and third-party services providers, while ensuring that we inform them that they must use your personal information only for the purposes disclosed in this Privacy Policy.
- To a court, law enforcement body, government agency, court or other third parties where we believe disclosure is necessary
- As a matter of applicable law or regulation
- To exercise, establish or defend our legal rights
- To protect your vital interests or those of any other person.
How Vaarada protects the personal information
Data Protection
To protect your personal information, we use all appropriate technical and organisational measures. We architect our systems to specifically protect your personal information, we regularly test our systems for intrusion/penetration, and we regularly get ourselves audited by third-parties for our technical and organisational security measures.
However, please note that no system is completely secure/immune from attacks, intrusions, design errors, implementation errors, and human errors. Therefore, we do not warrant that the information you transmit via Vaarada will not be lost or compromised.
Data Retention
We retain the personal information for only as long as we have legitimate business reasons to do so.
- If we collected your personal information on behalf of our customers/partners, then we will retain your personal information as per instructions by our customers/partners.
- If we collected your personal information as Vaarada, then we will retain your personal information as long as you are active in our systems for a legitimate business reason.
Data Retention
We are headquartered in India, but we use partners, systems and services providers from across the globe. We store and process your personal information on third-party servers, which may be located in India, Singapore, Europe, or USA. These countries may have data protection laws that are different from the data protection laws in your country.
As and when required, we will ensure that your personal information will remain protected in accordance with our Privacy Policy and the applicable laws.
Amendments to the policy
Amendments to this policy will be posted on this URL, and those amendments will be effective from the time they get posted. Your continued use of our Website and Services, after we post any amendment, shall constitute your acceptance of the amendment.
How to contact Vaarada
Email: info@vaarada.com
Website: https://vaarada.com
Phone: +91 7700002088
Address Vaarada IT Solutions Private Limited ,
Srinivasa Agraharam, Ramamurthy Nagar,
Nellore, Andhra Pradesh -524001.